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Twitter says its research shows its algorithms amplify right-leaning content more than left-leaning content, but doesn't know what causes the amplification — Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians …
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Twitter, Engadget, The Overspill, Slashdot, SiliconANGLE, and SlashGear
| Reuters: |
Sources: ransomware gang REvil was hacked and forced offline this week by an active multi-country operation that includes US law enforcement — The ransomware group REvil was itself hacked and forced offline this week by a multi-country operation, according to three private sector cyber experts working …
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iTnews, AppleInsider, The Hill, MacRumors, Newsweek, iTWire, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @silascutler, @swiftonsecurity, @dcuthbert, @kimzetter, @imposecost, @chicagocyber, @lindseyod123, and @zackwhittaker
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google lowers Play Store subscription fees to 15% and fees for ebooks and on-demand music streaming services to “as low as 10%”; IAP cut seems to be unaffected — Subscription fees are lowered to 15 percent, and music streaming services ‘as low as 10%’
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Android Developers Blog, Bloomberg, Engadget, MacRumors, CNBC, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Tubefilter, and CNET
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap Q3: $1.07B revenue, up 57% YoY, vs. $1.10B est., DAUs up 23% to 306M, net loss down 64% to $72M, blames iOS ATT changes for revenue miss; stock down 20%+ — - Snap reported its third-quarter earnings on Thursday, missing revenue expectations after Apple's iPhone privacy changes disrupted its advertising business.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Windows 11 update fixes AMD CPU latency issues that reduced performance 3-5% for some apps and 10-15% for esports games — First patch arrives, second is inbound … AMD has also confirmed to Tom's Hardware that it has released a patch for one of the two bugs that lead to reduced performance …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections — Truth Social has some unusual rules for a Trump-run site: It reserves the right to ban users and safeguard itself from lawsuits with Section 230 protections.
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Fortune and VICE
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple says the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max will feature a High Power Mode for intensive, sustained workloads — The new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max Apple Silicon chip will feature a new High Power Mode for intensive, sustained workloads, according to Apple.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Sam Altman's Worldcoin launches its cryptocurrency that it gives in exchange for users' eye scans, says it has 100K users globally and is valued at $1B — - Tech millionaire Sam Altman's new start-up Worldcoin uses orb-shaped devices to scan people's eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency.
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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Bankless Times, and Crypto Briefing
| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
FTC study on the six largest ISPs finds that some fail to fully inform consumers on how their data is monetized, such as using browsing history to serve up ads — Internet service providers fail to disclose to consumers how they use sensitive data, obscure privacy practices and making …
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Federal Trade Commission, The Record, Federal Trade Commission, The Daily Dot, Reuters, Protocol, FierceTelecom, Pixel Envy, and CNET
Tweets: @bergmayer, @linakhanftc, @internetthought, @linakhanftc, @ethanbaron, @senblumenthal, @senmarkey, @jeffstone500, and @rycrist. Thanks:@tonyajoriley
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel Q3: revenue of $18.1B, up 5% YoY, vs. $18.2B est., Client Computing Group revenue fell 2% to $9.7B due to component shortages; stock down 7%+ after hours — - Intel reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday. — The semiconductor company is in a period of massive capital expenditure …
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ZDNet, MarketWatch, HPCwire, Laptop Mag, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, PCWorld, Wccftech, VentureBeat, Oregonian, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Investor's Business Daily
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| The Markup: |
Analysis of 23K+ websites of nonprofits: about 86% had third-party cookies or trackers, with some, like Planned Parenthood, tracking user keystrokes — Such organizations often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—and many are feeding data about website visitors to corporations
Tweets: @juliaangwin, @little_wow, @little_wow, @jonkeegan, @juliaangwin, @little_wow, @little_wow, @themarkup, @astepanovich, and @tonyajoriley
| Wall Street Journal: |
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launches a broad investigation into the user data practices at Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, and other tech companies — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to seek information on how those firms and others use consumers' financial information
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| PYMNTS.com: |
Olo, a white label restaurant ordering service, acquires Wisely, which offers restaurant-focused customer intelligence products, for $187M in cash and stock — Olo, an on-demand commerce platform powering the restaurant industry's digital transformation, will buy customer intelligence …
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Business Wire and Nation's Restaurant News
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Brex, which offers credit cards tailored to startups, raises $300M at a $12.3B valuation, following a $425M Series D at a $7.4B valuation in April — Fast-growing fintech Brex has raised $300 million in funding that propels it to decacorn status, just six months after it was valued at $7.4 billion … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Hong Kong-based XanPool, whose software facilitates faster crypto and fiat settlements, raises a $27M Series A led by Valar Ventures — XanPool, a payment infrastructure provider that facilitates faster crypto and fiat settlements, announced today it has raised a $27 million Series A led by Valar Ventures.
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds a $100/month tier with RTX 3080 GPUs, hosted inside a bespoke SuperPod server, offering 1440p games at 120fps — Thanks to new custom servers equipped with RTX 3080 GPUs, GeForce Now will support game streaming at up to 1440p at 120fps—but it'll cost you.
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The Official NVIDIA Blog, Windows Central, The Verge, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @mattbirchler
| Shane Shifflett / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at efforts by bitcoin miners to use green energy sources, including the voluntary Crypto Climate Accord framework signed by 180 companies in April — Producing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin requires lots of cheap electricity, putting pressure on the industry| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
VideoAmp, which offers audience and ad measurement tools across digital platforms and traditional TV, raises a $275M Series F at a $1.4B valuation — The latest round of funding, led by Spruce House Partnership, values VideoAmp at $1.4 billion, the company said| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Lyft releases its first safety report, says it received 4,000+ reports of sexual assault, including 360 reports of rape, on its app from 2017 through 2019 — The company's first safety report came nearly two years after Uber released a similar set of data for its app.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Pomelo, which was founded earlier this year to make fintech-as-a-service infrastructure for LatAm businesses, raises a $35M Series A led by Tiger Global — Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round, Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million … Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX raises a $420.69M Series B-1 at a $25B valuation from 69 investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global — FTX has memed itself into another massive funding round. — Sam Bankman-Fried's Bahamas-based crypto exchange said Wednesday it had raised $420,690,000 in a Series B-1 funding round.
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PR Newswire, CNBC, Bitcoin News, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and The Information
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